Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ

Ecclesiastes

Taking Inventory Of Our Lives

JOB 14:1-2 – Man who is born of a woman is few of days and full of trouble. He comes out like a flower and withers; he flees like a shadow and continues not. THEME OF THE DAY: TAKING INVENTORY OF OUR LIVES.  Life may be viewed like the changing of seasons in nature.  I am not referring to summer giving way…

A Wasted Life

ECCLESIASTES 12:13-14 – “The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. For God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil.” THEME OF THE DAY: A WASTED LIFE.    Have we ever looked back on our lives and with wishful thinking said…

The Seriousness Of Life

ECCLESIASTES 12:13-14 – “The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. For God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil.” THEME OF THE DAY: THE SERIOUSNESS OF LIFE.  The Apostle Paul graphically paints what the world will be like in…

We Just Don’t Know When

ECCLESIASTES 9:11-12 – “Again I saw that under the sun the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to the intelligent, nor favor to those with knowledge, but time and chance happen to them all. For man does not know his time. Like fish that are taken in an evil…

Getting A Good Dose Of Reality

ECCLESIASTES 1:1-11 – “The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem. Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity. What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun? A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains forever. The sun rises, and the sun goes down,…

We Would Not Change A Thing

MATTHEW 25:1-13 – “Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them, but the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps. As the bridegroom was delayed, they all…